Alternative and efficient extraction methods for marine-derived compounds

Marine ecosystems cover more than 70% of the globe's surface. These habitats are occupied by a great diversity of marine organisms that produce highly structural diverse metabolites as a defense mechanism. In the last decades, these metabolites have been extracted and isolated in order to test...

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Autores: Grosso, Clara, Valentão, Patricia, Ferreres, Federico, Andrade, Paula B.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/137440
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/137440
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Microwave-assisted extraction
Switchable solvents
Enzyme-assisted extraction
Marine compounds
Pressurized solvent extraction
Pulsed electric field-assisted extraction
Supercritical fluid extraction
Ultrasound-assisted extraction
Ionic liquids
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Sumario:Marine ecosystems cover more than 70% of the globe's surface. These habitats are occupied by a great diversity of marine organisms that produce highly structural diverse metabolites as a defense mechanism. In the last decades, these metabolites have been extracted and isolated in order to test them in different bioassays and assess their potential to fight human diseases. Since traditional extraction techniques are both solvent- and time-consuming, this review emphasizes alternative extraction techniques, such as supercritical fluid extraction, pressurized solvent extraction, microwave-assisted extraction, ultrasound-assisted extraction, pulsed electric field-assisted extraction, enzyme-assisted extraction, and extraction with switchable solvents and ionic liquids, applied in the search for marine compounds. Only studies published in the 21<sup>st</sup> century are considered. © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI.